Inter-School Accounting
Competition for Principles of Accounts Students

Dunman Secondary School’s team has
done us proud by clinching the First Prize in 2016 Inter-School Accounting
Competition held at Temasek Polytechnic.

Secondary 3 Mathematics Trail

The first in-house Math
Trail was held in 2016 for Secondary 3 cohort. The theme of 2016 Math Trail is
on Crime Scene Investigation where students work in teams to solve real-life
problems using Mathematical concepts in order to get the clues to solve the
“crime” and win prizes through the points they accumulated from the different
stations.

Some of the topics covered
include Currency Exchange, Scales and Maps etc.

Secondary 1 NA/NT Kite Flying
& Mathematics

In this first in-house designed programme,
students get to understand how the shape and properties a kite plays a part in
how it flies. Through comparing Delta and Diamond shapes of kites, they get a
sense of different factors and properties of the shape affect the lift, weight,
drag and thrust a kite.

Exploratory activities that are hands-on
are carried out by our teachers to help our students learn Mathematical
concepts and see the application of these concepts in real-life. Some of the activities the students are
engaged in includes the assembling of a clinometer used to find the height of
flag pole in school, discovering the connection between the volume of prisms
and pyramids as well as surface area of a sphere using an orange.

Alternative Assessments:

In 2016, the Math Department embarked on
the journey of Alternative Assessment where students work on projects that
allow them to see how Math is found in real-life contexts as well as with an
infusion of cultivating 21st Century Skills. Some of the projects done include
investigating in how car plates are generated, application of probability in
genetics and real-life, etc.

Our Teachers:

One of the projects titled as “MAGICAL”
which stands for “Mathematics is Great: I Can And Like” involved teachers
exploring an alternative approach to teaching Math for Secondary 1 N(T). The
teachers were interviewed by local newspapers and were invited to share their
experiences at the 2016 Singapore Math Teachers Conference.

The other project is on investigating task
difficultly and generativity on the learning effect of delayed instruction led
by Dr David J.S. Huang which looks into when and how problem solving followed
by instruction supports learning.